The Lark Burying Her Father

　　ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common

　　share which they each had in the affairs of mankind; for the Ills

　　by reason of their numbers had prevailed to possess the earth.

　　The Goods wafted1 themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous

　　vengeance on their persecutors. They entreated2 Jupiter that they

　　might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing

　　in common and could not live together, but were engaged in

　　unceasing warfare3; and that an indissoluble law might be laid

　　down for their future protection. Jupiter granted their request

　　and decreed that henceforth the Ills should visit the earth in

　　company with each other, but that the Goods should one by one

　　enter the habitations of men. Hence it arises that Ills abound,

　　for they come not one by one, but in troops, and by no means

　　singly: while the Goods proceed from Jupiter, and are given, not

　　alike to all, but singly, and separately; and one by one to those

　　who are able to discern them.